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At some point there will be a need for austerity measures and rising taxes, and whoever will do that will be very unpopular.


Austerity measures do not decrease national debt. What they do is depress GDP so that you have no chance to repay the debt.


DOGE already started the austerity measures, and tariffs are taxes, so it's already in play. Popularity may be moot depending upon how things play out in the next couple years.


DOGE achieved little to nothing, tariffs don't compensate at all the raise in spending.


Except neither of those do anything and they're actively counteracted 100 to 1 by the rest of the new fiscal policy introduced.

So weve lost a bunch of shit and gained... let me check here... oh, -2 trillion dollars. Okay.

But at least some poor sick people will lose Medicaid. Glad to see we're burning our money and then spending more on running the AC full blast so we don't boil.




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